This summer replacement for The Tommy Hunter Show aired on Friday nights at 9 pm and presented 60 minutes of music and comedy, broadcast from CBC’s tiny Halifax studio.
The hosts were country/folk singer Tom Gallant, 20-year-old Gloria Kaye, and Nova Scotian balladeer Jim Bennet.
Sharp comedy sketches were inserted between songs by Toronto’s Second City Revue alumni – Andrea Martin, Eugene Levy and Joe O’Flaherty.
A regular feature called ‘Film Classics’ dubbed non-sequitur dialogue onto an old black & white film – Of Human Bondage (1934) with Bette Davis and Trevor Howard. The new script traced the struggle of one Steve Bashakus to become a stand-up comic.
The show featured a number of guests – from familiar faces to Canadian TV audiences like Debbie Lori Kaye and Marg Osburne, to fresh variety acts including Vancouver vocalist Geanette Brantley, Toronto singers Jason King and Mary Ann MacDonald, and Winnipeg comedy quartet, Kornstock.
Hosts
Tom Gallant
Gloria Kaye
Jim Bennet
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